Sarah Chalke was so good for so long on Scrubs. So I’ve never understood why, outside of an occasional How I Met Your Mother or Cougar Town appearance, she hasn’t been in more things since departing the NBC hospital comedy after season eight, at least until she got a starring gig on Adult Swim’s fantastic Rick and Morty. The more Sarah Chalke, the better, even if you can’t actually see her. You’ll have to wait until her appearances on late-night shows like The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for that, and oh my, was it worth it. Come for the Chalke, stay for the sexy dresses (sorry, Alice Eve) and lesbian sex pitches.

Ferguson conducts the absolute best interviews in all of late night. He has an uncanny ability to relate to his guest and get them completely comfortable within a matter of minutes. He understands how to listen to responses and ask follow up questions that further facilitate a conversation beyond the boilerplate ‘so, hows the press tour going??? what’s in the clip we’re going to see?!?!?!?!’ drivel. I need to go back and reread his book. Dude is a dynamo.

After he got that Peabody for his interview with Sir Desmond Tutu, I think he realized how much he could accomplish even without CBS giving him an in-house band, a budget, marketing or acknowledgment of his existence. There’s an interview between him and what’s-his-face, played the young father in big fish, in the new star wars, train spotting, etc… That’s when Ferguson got really good.

He’s too good, he needs to get called up to Letterman’s spot post haste.